1904 in Scotland

Events from the year 1904 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Andrew Murray

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Charles Dickson
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – David Dundas

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Blair Balfour
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

Events

 * 28 June – the Danish liner SS Norge is wrecked off Rockall with the loss of 635 lives.
 * 1 August – a judgement on appeal to the House of Lords in the case of Bannatyne v Overtoun (in which the minority Free Church of Scotland challenged the new United Free Church of Scotland) is delivered.
 * 17 September – new St Columba Church of Scotland, Glasgow, opened.
 * 31 December – Glasgow-registered cargo steamers Stromboli and Kathleen collide and sink at Garvel Point, Greenock.
 * Hyskeir Lighthouse completed.
 * The Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art is renamed as the Royal Scottish Museum.
 * Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh, founded.
 * First West Highland White Terrier breed club set up.

Births

 * 4 January – Erik Chisholm, composer (died 1965 in South Africa)
 * 26 April – Jimmy McGrory, international footballer and manager (died 1982)
 * 28 May – Anne Gillespie Shaw, engineer and businesswoman (died 1982)
 * 25 June – Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, historian and biographer (died 1976)
 * 14 August – Lindley Fraser, academic economist and broadcaster (died 1963 in London)
 * 23 August – William Primrose, violist (died in Provo, Utah 1982)
 * 20 October – Tommy Douglas, Premier of Saskatchewan and pioneer of medicare (died 1986 in Canada)
 * 3 November – Jennie Lee, politician (died 1988)
 * 20 November – John MacCormick, lawyer and advocate of Home Rule for Scotland (died 1961)
 * Edward Baird, painter (died 1949)
 * Alex Moffat, miner, trade unionist and communist activist (died 1967)

Deaths

 * 16 April – Samuel Smiles, author and reformer (born 1812)
 * 25 May – David Sime Cargill, industrialist (born 1826)
 * 7 October – Isabella Bird, traveller (born 1831 in Yorkshire)
 * 12 November – George Lennox Watson, naval architect (born 1851)
 * 25 December – James Brown, poet and essayist, known as J. B. Selkirk (born 1832)

The arts

 * 29 February – the Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, opens as a music hall.
 * 12 September – the King's Theatre, Glasgow, opens.
 * 27 December – J. M. Barrie's stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premières at the Duke of York's Theatre in London.
 * Hill House, Helensburgh, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is completed.